THE OTHER WORLD(22-6-2012)

For months together, I have endured this like the rest of us. Never complaining, never moaning. For this is my life. This is our life. we have never known better. I press my face against the bars that have held me for most of my life. I do that every day. For My day is coming. Everyone's does. For this is the only way i can dream. Outside, I see heaven. I have been there, for a very brief period of time.

My eyes blink furiously, lavishing the utopia out there. Oh goodness! We sense everything that goes on there. We see, we smell, we hear. Cavorting dogs, lined up trees-tall and thick aching downward with their weight. The shed leaves- flailing all the way down gracefully, beautifully and gently resting on the ground.  There are hawkers , little children, speeding vehicles, stuffs of all shapes, smells of all kinds. But its all out there. Its the other world. In here, its just us. Its just us and everything that belongs to us.

But then, my day shall come, everyone’s does. And when it does, Heaven shall be mine. To roam, to feed to flail, to rest. I shall run all the roads and as i do, the wind shall beat against my face, the world shall sing to my beat. I shall dash around, sing to the sky, rub against every object that titillates my sight, savor every smell that titillates my nostrils. Oh my senses go wild even to the thought! It shall be my paradise, for eternity.

I know my neighbors envy me, for they see me dream, see me hope. In the same space they sit, hopeless-their eyes don’t dream , their hopes are dead. Worthless lazy beings, they sit there emotionless, waiting for their turn. Today wasn’t my turn. It was his. Lucky bastard.

The door opens.

One of us will go. There springs chaos. Fanatics. They run Everywhere. Stampede. They scream. They fall.

Please me…please me… please…

Yes! Its me! Its me! O dear God Its me! My heart pounds. All I can see is the door. The  door…  Its getting closer… Closer….There! The door closes behind me.

The other world! The other world! My limbs fling around like crazy. They want to run they want to fly. I shriek in joy. The smell, the space the depth , the freedom. I wanted it all. I have it all!

But wait.. why am I not moving? Why is it all getting farther? Where am I going?  Let me run! Let me fly! I fling harder. I shriek louder.. Farther it goes. Some force drags me away from my dreams, my destiny. No… I’m so close..stop..Please stop…Please! ***SNAP!**

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